Esmatulla (Guantanamo detainee 888)

Infobox WoT detainees
subject_name = Esmatulla

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date_of_birth = Birth year and age|1977
place_of_birth = Dekundie, Afghanistan
date_of_arrest =
place_of_arrest= Uruzgan
arresting_authority= Uruzgan Governor Jan Mohammed
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citizenship = Afghanistan
detained_at = Guantanamo
id_number = 888
group =
alias = Ismat Ullah
charge = No charge, held in extrajudicial detention
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csrt_transcript=
occupation = taxi driver
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Esmatulla "(also transliterated as Ismat Ullah)" is a citizen of Afghanistan, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf
title=List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2006-05-15
quote=] Esmatulla's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 888.American intelligence analysts estimate Esmatulla was born in 1977, in Dekundie, Afghanistan.

Combatant Status Review Tribunal

] Three chairs were reserved for members of the press, but only 37 of the 574 Tribunals were observed.cite web
url=http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=3902
title=Annual Administrative Review Boards for Enemy Combatants Held at Guantanamo Attributable to Senior Defense Officials
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=March 6 2007
accessdate=2007-09-22] ]

Initially the Bush administration asserted that they could withhold all the protections of the Geneva Conventions to captives from the war on terror. This policy was challenged before the Judicial branch. Critics argued that the USA could not evade its obligation to conduct a competent tribunal to determine whether captives are, or are not, entitled to the protections of prisoner of war status.

Subsequently the Department of Defense instituted the Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The Tribunals, however, were not authorized to determine whether the captives were "lawful combatants" -- rather they were merely empowered to make a recommendation as to whether the captive had previously been correctly determined to match the Bush administration's definition of an enemy combatant.

ummary of Evidence memo

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Ismat Ullah's Combatant Status Review Tribunal on September 4 2004. cite web
url= [http://www.dod.mil/pub/foi/detainees/csrt_Mar05.pdf#227
page=page 227
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- name redacted (published in March 2005)
publisher=United States Department of Defense
author=OARDEC
date=2004-09-02
accessdate=2006
quote= ] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000600-000699.pdf#44
page=page 44
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Ullah, Ismat (published in September 2007)
publisher=United States Department of Defense
author=OARDEC
date=2004-09-02
accessdate=2008-07-31
quote= ] The memo listed the following allegations::

The following primary factors favor release or transfer:

:

Transcript

Esmatulla chose to participate in his second annual Administrative Review Board hearing. [cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Transcript_2599-2697.pdf#11
pages=pages 11-19
title=Summary of Administrative Review Board Proceedings for detainee ISN 888
publisher=United States Department of Defense
author=OARDEC
date=date redacted
accessdate=2008-07-31
quote= ]

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